THREE KINDS OF TITHING;
Hebrews 7:8 refers to three kinds of tithing;
1. Levites who took and received tithes under the Law of Moses. (Hebrews 7:5)
2. Levites who paid tithes through Abram to Melchisedec. (Hebrews 7:9)
3. Abram who paid a tithe to Melchisedec thus establishing the superiority of Melchisedec over Abram, the Levites and Levitical priesthood being in the loins of Abram. (Hebrews 7:2-7, Hebrews 10:1-11)
Neither tithing example 1, 2 or 3 apply to the New Testament Church, they are acts and events of the Old Testament. Additionally; the tithe given to Melchisedec has proven the superiority of the priestly order of Melchisedec once and for all and does not need to be repeated over and over again to establish again the superiority of the priestly order of Melchisedec, Melchisedec being a similitude of Jesus Christ our eternal High Priest has been established (Psalm 110:4, Hebrews 5:6, Hebrews 7:15,17).
The spiritual purpose of Abram paying tithes to Melchisedec was to demonstrate and forever establish Melchisedec's superiority; that has been accomplished and no further tithes need to be given to Melchisedec to prove anything further. There is no practical Biblical reason to "pay tithes" to Melchisedec as Abram did, and no Biblical basis for paying tithes to a person claiming you must pay tithes to them as Abram paid to Melchisedec. Abram paid tithes once to Melchisedec, he did not pay a tithe to a pastor, TV preacher, a church or any other person under the New Testament.
In Abram, the tithing under the Law of Moses [ergo; the Levites; Hebrews 7:5,9] and tithing before the Law of Moses by Abram, are brought together as one event, one process, one act in and by one person; Abram tithing to Melchisedec. One factual statement of the superiority of the priesthood of Melchisedec who is a type, a similitude of the eternal priesthood of Jesus Christ [Hebrews 7:7,15]. Any further tithing as combined and seen in Abram (under the law or before the law) is declared thus...
Hebrews 7:18 - "For there is verily a disannulling [cancellation] of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof." Canceled because it is both weak and unprofitable, therefore not continued into the New Testament.
CONCLUSION;
No New Testament person has been authorized by God to receive a tithe for Melchisedec or for Jesus Christ. As for paying any tithes; God's word makes it clear; tithing of any kind is now canceled having accomplished what it needed to accomplish under both Abraham and the Law of Moses...
Hebrews 7:17-18 - "For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof." And;
> The law justifies nobody. - Galatians 2:16
> Christians are dead to the law. - Galatians 2:19
> The law frustrates grace. - Galatians 2:21
> To go back to the law after embracing faith is “foolishness”. - Galatians 3:1
> The law curses ALL (including Gentiles) who practice it and fail to do it perfectly. - Galatians 3:10...
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."
Note: "For as many" ..i.e., ANYONE
> The law has nothing to do with faith. - Galatians 3:11-12
> The law was a curse that Christ redeemed us from. - Galatians 3:13
>> Hebrews 7:8 - "And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth."
"Here;" referring to tithes received by the Levites under the Law of Moses.
"There;" referring to the event of the tithe paid to Melchisedec by Abraham which included a tithe from the Levites in Abraham.
"Receiveth them;" referring to the actual tithe paid to Melchisedec by Abraham of which also included a tithe from the Levites in Abraham.
Simply stated; "there" = Levites ... "here" = Melchisedec.
>> The Law of Moses in the tithing of Abraham is present and represented by the Levites...
Hebrews 7:5 - "And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:"
Hebrews 7:9 - "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham." ...PAYED TITHES IN ABRAHAM
Hebrews 7:11 - "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?"
STOP TITHING TO LIARS WHO BURDEN YOU WITH THEIR GREED AND DECEPTIONS. TITHING HAS NO FURTHER BIBLICAL PURPOSE.
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